Quotes About Ethics

The reasoning, as far as I could see, being that the young would recover and have work left in them, while the old were not worth saving.

This way of speaking—"Putin is a killer, but so are we all"—mirrors Putin's own propaganda, which often states, in so many words, "Okay, Russia is corrupt, but so is everyone else.

Lageris buvo sunkiausias m?s? moralin?s stipryb?s,m?s? kasdien?s moral?s egzaminas ir 99 proc. jo neišlaik?,-raš? Šalamovas.

Un sistema amañado y poco competitivo suena mal si queremos vivir en una sociedad dirigida por personas de talento; pero si ese no es nuestro principal interés, ¿qué hay de malo en ello?

Would you take credit for someone else's achievement when you had nothing to do with that achievement?" Ilya asked. "No." "Then don't take credit for someone else's mistakes.

Being human doesn't entitle us to grab what doesn't belong to us.

Sometimes doing the right thing isn't the right thing to do."   "Here

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!

All novels are, or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.

The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live....

She said, When you see these horrible images why do you stay with them? Why keep watching? Why not go away? I was amazed. Go away where? I said.

Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied.

But when justice is done the world drops away.

Like honey is the sleep of the just.

If a sportsman true you'd be Listen carefully to me; Never, never let your gun Pointed be at anyone; That it might unloaded be Matters not the least to me. You may hit or you may miss, But at all times think of this: All the game birds ever bred Won't pay for one man dead. Forty

You can not libel the dead, I think, you can only console them.

I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

Not a bit. I don't hold with all that 'sins of the father' nonsense.

And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

The strange boy looked astonished. "Why don't you fight then?" He asked crossly. "Because if I hit you back, I'd be no better than you are. I'd be just as rotten and worthless and I'd have no right to be free!

Having right over others is something shameful. It's using force.

You will be my conscience, and I will be your shame.